Will CIA nominee admit to her torture links?

Gina Haspel may be the next boss of the intelligence agency, despite having been chief of a secret prison in Thailand in 2002 where inmates were tortured, says Tim Weiner.

The Senate confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency will be the last chance for the United States to confront its history of torturing terrorist suspects.

Haspel got cold feet a few days back, as she prepared for her first public appearance representing the CIA. Who wouldn’t? She was contemplating a confession to countenancing violations of the laws of war.